A 13-year-old boy is the first person to ever beat Tetris, meaning that he forced a kill screen. This is the NES version, which was first released in 1989.

Willis Gibson, a 13-year-old kid from Oklahoma, became the first human to beat Tetris by reaching the "kill screen." Only AI had done it before.

A casual gamer could reasonably assume that, after nearly 35 years, there aren’t many achievements left to attain in the original Nintendo version of Tetris.Willis “blue scuti” Gibson ...

At level 157, he reached the notorious "kill screen" — the point in the game where it becomes unplayable because of limitations with the game's original programming. It took him less than 39 ...

34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen” . BlueScuti forces the game to crash after 40 minutes and 1,511 lines.

The NES Tetris arms race finally seems to be over— while Tetris (NES) was finally "beaten" at level 157 in December 2023, culminating in the first human-reached "Kill screen" crash, it has ...

For the better part of 44 years, Nintendo's 1981 arcade classic Donkey Kong was understood to have a single, definitive endpoint: a "kill screen" where a bug ensures that Mario will inevitably die ...